Swiss investment bank, UBS has given its own list of top 10 stock picks in Asia for 2009, and surprisingly the list has only one Indian company, Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s largest mobile-phone operator.

Airtel and Google have entered into a partnership where Google Search will be made available on Airtel Live! WAP portal. Google Search on wap.google.com only displays search results on the internet, and will not be the same as search results on Airtel Live! portal.

In the run up to unlocking value in the tower business by telecom companies, there is now talk of a possibility of a merger of the tower business of three GSM mobile operators – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular which would create a mega tower company.

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With the offloading of 5% stake in Reliance Tower Infrastructure Ltd by Reliance Communications to 7 financial investors valuing the tower business of the company at astonishing Rs.27000 crore, the analysis has now shifted as to how the tower business would contribute in the growth of telecom companies.